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duó HSK6

take by force

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approved by Peter Olson · Mar 13, 2024, 02:39 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Mar 13, 2024, 02:39 AM

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Simplified form of 奪. Depicts a hand (寸) snatching a bird (隹). The top component was originally 衣 (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either 兌 or 大.

Components

大
大 Sound component
隹
隹 Deleted component
寸
寸 Iconic component

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode